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Bringing Gender Equality Closer to Women’s Economic Empowerm...
This framework by CARE International integrates gender equality principles into women’s economic empowerment initiatives. Key elements are: enhancing women’s skills, confidence, and decision-making (a...
Progress of the World’s Women: Transforming Economies, Reali...
This insightful UN Women report examines systemic barriers to women’s full participation in economies, including unequal access to work, unpaid care responsibilities, and gender wage gaps. It provides...
World Development Report: Gender Equality and Development (2...
This comprehensive World Bank report makes the case for gender equality as a core development objective and driver of economic growth and poverty reduction. The report, which stresses that gender equa...
A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter (2014)
Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin takes a historic view of gender roles to discern features of the “last chapter” for achieving gender equality in labor markets. This seminal research provides a compr...
Women’s Empowerment and Economic Development (2011)
Esther Duflo explores the bi-directional relationship between economic development and women’s empowerment in this influential paper. She reviews the evidence on both sides of the empowerment-developm...
Resources, Agency, and Achievements: Reflections on the Meas...
This foundational paper by Naila Kabeer was one of the first to conceptualize and measure women’s empowerment rigorously, defining it as a process by which those previously denied the ability to make ...
Gender and Cooperative Conflicts (1987)
In this groundbreaking work, Amartya Sen critiques economic theories of harmonious household behavior, illustrating how gender bias and power asymmetries shape the intrahousehold allocation of resourc...
Off Track: Using Data-Driven Advocacy to Reclaim the Road to...
In this podcast, Alison Holder, Executive Director of Equal Measures 2030, highlights the concerning stagnation – and in some cases, regression – in progress toward achieving gender equality by 2030.
How police patrols reduced severe street harassment in India...
In commemorating the 16-Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence Campaign, we are spotlighting a blog co-authored by SAR GIL team member, Sofia Amaral. Read about how the deployment of frequent ...
Debiasing Law Enforcement Officers: Evidence from an Express...
Debiasing Law Enforcement Officers: Evidence from an Express...
Women as Policymakers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Exp...
Esther Duflo and Raghabendra Chattopadhyay’s seminal work highlights the importance of women’s leadership on welfare outcomes by examining the effects of gender quotas in India’s local governance, fin...